Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-20
NEWS IN GENERAL.

cut in its shell.
The cost to the principals in a
suit over a rooster in the Bergen
County, New Jersey, courts, has
reached $500.
A woman waiting for a train in a
New Haven railway station the
other day had eight crosseyed
children with her.
In one week in New York thirty
two drygoods clerks lost their sit
uatiOns because it was ascertained
that they frequented poOl-rooms.
A steer at Hagerstown, Nd, ate
a dynamite cartridge he found in
a rock quarry, and Immediately
disappeared in different directions
in small peices.
The names of thirty-six widows
of soldiers who served in the Rev.
dictionary war are still on the
rolls in the pension Office. The
average age of the pensioners is
S2f years.
q. A. Williams, of Lee County,
Alabama, has little boy who is
only 4 years old. The little fellow
writes a good hand, is quick at
figures, and can read as fuently
as anyone.
A Buffalo canary has miniature
well in it's cage, with a bucket, the
chain of which reaches to it's perch.
When it wants drink it draws up
the bucket, much to the delight of
the children in the neighborhood.
A Sicillian has invented a meth
cd by which cremation is accom-
plished by means of electricity.
1t requires dynamo like those
employed for arc lights. 1t is
stated that the effect of the in
tense heat is to vaporize the en-
tire body.
A covered farm wagon, east
ward bound, passed through a
Negraska town a few days ago,
containing the owner of the outfit
his wife and FIVE children, living
buffalo, an antelope, a pair Of
wolves, a pair of swifts or prairie
foxes, and box of white rats, be-
sides a considerable store of pro
visions.
The old question as to whether
the upper part of a carriage whee
in motion goes along faster thai
the lower part seems to have beer
settled by instantaneous photog
raphy. In the photograph the
outer ends of the upper spoke.
appear indistinct by reason of tn,
motion, while the outer ends o.
the spokes in the lower part o
the wheel are photographed will
distinctness.
1t is calculated that during tn,
last twelve months the people o
this country have individually an,
severally put their tongues on
1868, $4,000 times to moisten tn,
postage stamps for the billions o
letters and millions of papers, pc
riodicals and parcels that are car
ried and delivered by the Govern
ment. And yet forty-fve year
ago there wasn't postage staml
in the United States.
The Columbia Sentinel, o
Geol gia, publishes this deatl
notice: "On Friday last, just al
ter the sun had kissed this worlt
good night, and passed into it
bed Of crimson and gold, the spiri
of A. G. Sturgis vacated it's hab
itation of clay, and wendell it
way to the Father who gave il
and to day is walking the glory-li
hills of immortality in the New
Jerusalem, where there is N,
night"
The Justices of the Suprem
Court of the United States nov
wear plain black robes. In tn
beginning of the century the robe
had scarlet facing, because ono
Chief Justice John Jay borrowe,
the robe of the Chancellor of New
York, which was SO faced, and a.
the other Justices followed tn
style. In 1903, however, som
one asserted that the red trimmin
was too Englise, and it was dil
carded, and the plain black ha
been used ever since.